Cellucidate Support Nov 23, 2009
Although you might consider the cBook itself to be a model, the cBook is actually a collection of rules and agents and a set of models. The model page within the cBook represents a single model, and it may contain a subset or all of the rules and agents in the cBook. It is on the model page where you can explore the static and dynamic properties of the rules and agents that you have collected in the current book. A model in Cellucidate consists of rules selected from the current cBook and initial conditions defined from agents in the cBook.
The rules section of the model page is where you add rules to, and remove rules from, the model. In this section you can also edit and override the default rate constants defined on the rule pages. These new rate constants are only applied to the current model and don't affect the rule page itself or any other models in the cBook.
The initial conditions section of the model page is where you can add, remove and edit the model's initial conditions. The initial conditions are the set of agents and complexes that exist in the system at the initial time point of a simulation. In addition to specifying the initial conditions themselves, you must specify the abundance (number of molecules) of each initial condition.
Once you have defined the rules and initial conditions of the model, the model panel will appear at the center of the model page. From the various tabbed views of the model panel, you can run dynamic analysis of the model via dynamic simulation and story analysis, or static analysis of the model via the contact map and influence map.